Libraries October 2021

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librarians as wikimedians in elementary schools?
by GLAM GLAM 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

Hi Folx! Anyone expereinced in working as librarian and wikipedian with elementary school teachers and pupils? How does it benefit your work? What is a good resource to check for working on open content with these target groups? Thank you for any tips and tricks, pointers and leads! Best Z. Blace

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WikidataCon Proposals closing soon!
by Hilary K Thorsen 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Greetings everyone, A reminder that submissions for the community tracks at WikidataCon are open until October 20, 2021 (midnight anywhere in the world). You are welcome to submit a proposal to the conference! Giovanna Fontenelle and I are helping plan the GLAM track, which will be held Saturday, October 30th from 15:00<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635606008> to 23:00<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635634851> UTC. There are a variety of sessions you can propose from lightning talks to presentations and discussion sessions. WikidataCon is an event held every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it will be held virtually and runs from October 29-October 31, 2021. Overview of the Community Tracks: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3… Information about proposing a session is further down on that same page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3… Direct link to the proposal system: https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/ Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help with your submission. Cheers, Hilary Hilary Thorsen Resource Sharing Librarian Stanford Libraries thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429

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Wikidata in Education, WikiJournals: Next Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting
by LiAnna Davis 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC (see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801). As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia & Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our guest speakers. Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who will speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, and Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of the Wikipedia-academia divide. Our speakers' biographies: * Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods. * Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including determining data models and creating a WikiProject page. * Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put through external peer review. We hope you can join us! The meeting will be hosted via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09 Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837 Passcode: 153195 If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me an email offlist.

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Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, October 19th
by Jiyun Jung 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Hello! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634659224>). Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh) will discuss the Scottish Accused Witches project. The call details are below. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes are available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>. The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata. Call Details Date and Time: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1632240032>) Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92321580874?pwd=aGN0aHJER1I2TWNiZHNFek5FMmx3Zz09 Password: 087062 Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zAgFigQFhnB1GXiRjt0MvXxB9ry87tu7YNS_5bM… Working Hours: Join us for a collaborative hour of editing and Wikidata practice. We will provide a project for the hour, and you're always welcome to bring your own projects to work on. This is a space for community and skill-building. We welcome your questions and your expertise about all things Wikidata. Subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> for an announcement of the next working hour. Upcoming Working Hour dates: o Monday, October 25, 2021 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 19:00 UTC / 8:00pm CEST (Time zone converter)<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635184820> Communication: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata #wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n Wikidata Project Page website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators: Alex Jung Open Technology Specialist University of Toronto Libraries

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Get ready for 1Lib1Ref 2022!
by Satdeep Gill 08 Oct '21

08 Oct '21

Hello everyone, The annual #1Lib1Ref campaign invites librarians, researchers, book lovers and wikimedians across the world to add missing references to articles, helping make the encyclopedia more reliable and useful. Are you excited about the 2022 edition of 1Lib1Ref as we celebrate 21 years of Wikipedia in January 2022? Do you have any ideas on how to invite more people to participate? Would you like to help organize and promote the campaign in your communities? You can join the 1Lib1Ref community via the Libraries ( libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org), and 1Lib1Ref (1lib1ref(a)lists.wikimedia.org) mailing lists, or by joining the Wikimedia + Libraries User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group>. Check out the Meta-Wiki page for more details: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref Feel free to reach out to me at *sgill(a)wikimedia.org <sgill(a)wikimedia.org>.* Best Satdeep -- Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him) Program Officer GLAM and Culture Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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[GLAM track] WikidataCon Call For Proposals Now Open!
by Giovanna Fontenelle 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

Greetings everyone, Submissions for the community tracks at WikidataCon are open. You are welcome to submit a proposal to the conference! Hilary Thorsen and I are helping to plan the *GLAM track <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…>*, which will be held Saturday, October 30th from *15:00 <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635606008> to 23:00 <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635634851> UTC*. WikidataCon is an event held every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it will be held virtually and run from October 29 to October 31, 2021. It’s a great way to share your work with the rest of the Wikidata community. - *Overview of the Community Tracks:* wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3_-_Community… <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…> - *Information about proposing a session* is further down on that same page: wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3_-_Community… <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…> - *Direct link to the proposal system:* pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/ Submissions are open until *October 20, 2021 *(midnight anywhere in the world), but the sooner you can submit a proposal, the easier it will be to fit you in. Each proposal undergoes an internal review process, and the schedule will be gradually released over the coming weeks. Please let us know if you have any questions or need any help with the submission process. Best, -- Giovanna Fontenelle Journalist, Historian, and Wikimedian giofontenelle(a)gmail.com @giofontenelle <https://twitter.com/giofontenelle> User:GiFontenelle <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GiFontenelle>

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What happened in GLAM in September?
by Romaine Wiki 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hello all! What happened with GLAM in September? Let us know and write a (short) report about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the worldwide and local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your area. Also this will encourage others to participate and donate material. You can start writing here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can always add it to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2021/Contents Please mention also the coming GLAM activities on our calendar on: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/October_2021 Deadline: 7 October If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask! Thanks & greetings! Romaine --- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine

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